Here we go again. If you’re a member of the American Anthropological Association, you should have received an email this past week (10/17) about avoiding copyright infringement. The message was...
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this? In this time of amplified racist hate and ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/09/18/resources-for-understanding-race-after-charlottesville/
A podcast and blog walk into a bar… This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 1 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/06/07/talwriting-in-my-culture/
By: Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar In 2016 the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in the illegal occupation of Palestine both gathered significant steam and fa...
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director ...
This is the third in a series of guest blogs this November from the AAA Archaeology Division Executive Board detailing ideas generated at retreat at the Amerind Foundation this past June. This po...
This post is an introduction to the November Guest Blogging Effort by Members of the American Anthropological Association Archaeology Division Executive Board. We are looking forward to having...
By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The resolution failed by exactly 39 vo...
https://savageminds.org/2016/06/10/aaa-boycott-vote-postmortem/
This is the third post in a three-post series of personal reflections on the AAA boycott vote. The first post discussed my own childhood Zionist education, while the second post addressed the fal...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/28/why-im-voting-for-the-boycott-part-3-its-in-the-resolution/
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this timely and poignant essay by Mick Taussig, calling us to a moment of truth in the discipline. Addressing concerns ab...
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this essay by Lisa Rofel and Daniel Segal on the debasement of the political debate about the boycott by its most vehemen...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/22/jaccuse-how-not-to-have-a-political-debate-about-bds/
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present Ghassan Hage‘s eloquent essay on the urgency of voting for boycott in a desperate situation of settler col...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/20/why-i-have-voted-in-support-of-bds-ghassan-hage/
*This is the second of a series of posts I am writing on the topic of the AAA boycott vote. You can read the previous post here. And now the third post is up as well.** Last November anthropologi...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/18/why-im-voting-for-the-boycott-part-2-squirrel/
UPDATE: The second post in this series is now up. And now the third post as well. Last November anthropologists attending the AAA business meeting in Denver voted by an astounding 1040-136 to end...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/15/why-im-voting-for-the-boycott-part-1-david-vs-goliath/
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to share this letter we received from 22 Israeli anthropologists endorsing the boycott. As anthropologists critical of ...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/06/israeli-anthropologists-support-the-boycott/